IndieEthos Insiders Tour 5: I, Daniel Blake breaks hearts with humanistic...
Politics and cinema has never mattered more to the British social-realist director Ken Loach. It was the election of a conservative government that brought him...
5 recommendations at Miami Film Fest + New indie rock –...
It's been a while since I've been on Jolt Radio with a new episode of "The Independent Ethos Radio Hour." Reviewing movies for Miami...
Phoenix offers a potent mystery hidden in plain sight by playing...
A mystery movie doesn’t always need to have its mysteries hidden away, obliging itself to constantly stringing along the audience with questions and twists....
Whit Stillman and I reconsider my negative review of ‘Damsels In...
In the second part of my conversation with filmmaker Whit Stillman (this is continued from: A cup of coffee in which director Whit Stillman and I...
'Heli' director Amat Escalante talks about making waves in indie film...
In an exclusive interview with Independent Ethos, Amat Escalante, best known for receiving the 2013 Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival for...
Critics and some centerpiece films make for interesting Day 2 at...
Day 2 of the Miami International Film Festival provided the experience I was looking forward to most about the 30th edition of this event: an intimate...
Barry Jenkins, Boots Riley and Patricia Clarkson to appear at 36th...
Yesterday, Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival officially announced this year’s complete lineup of movies and events. Beyond the headline I just wrote, the...
The Assassin tells moving story of humanity beyond martial arts —...
Eight years after his first film outside of either Taiwan or China (the Paris-set The Flight of the Red Balloon), Hou Hsiao-hsien could not have...
The 33rd Miami International Film Festival – so far
Sometimes cinema submits us into consent with images that tell us how to be, act or feel. The power of the Seventh Art can be...
The Nightingale makes revenge unsettling
There hasn’t been a movie this year that has so consistently moved me as much as the violent, horrifying revenge film The Nightingale. A...